Team

Principal Investigator

Dorota Dias-Lewandowska, Phd 
d.dias@iaepan.edu.pl



Anthropologist and historian. She wrote her doctoral thesis "Cultural history of French wine in Poland from the mid-seventeenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth century" under the supervision of Prof. Jarosław Dumanowski (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń) and Prof. Michael Figeac (University of Bordeaux Montaigne), and defended it with distinction in 2013 ("cotutelle" doctorate).  She co-edits the series "Studies in the History of Wine in Poland" and coordinates together with dr Pam Lock the Drinking Studies Network research cluster "Women and Alcohol”. 

Principal investigator in the projects:

  • 2021-2024 – "Between the drunken ‘mother of destruction’ and the sober ‘angel of the house’.Hidden representations of women’s drinking in Polish and British public discourses in the second half of the 19th century" NCN SONATA 2020/39/D/HS3/00568 
  • 2016-2020 – „Drinking culture in Poland in the second half of the 18th century. Alcohol, patterns of consumption and images of drinking”, NCN FUGA 2016/20/S/HS3/00107
  • 2011-2013 - Cultural history of French wine in Poland, KBN/NCN N N108 223340



Post-doc 



Melanie Foik, Phd
m.foik@iaepan.edu.pl 


Culturologist, historian, nurse. As a research fellow at the Institute of Slavonic Studies and the Department of History at the University of Münster, she taught history, literature and culture of Central and Eastern Europe. In 2020, she defended her doctoral thesis on the health service in the Polish People’s Republic in the 1950s and 1960s, written under the supervision of Prof. Eduard Mühle of the University of Münster and Prof. Claudia Kraft of the University of Vienna. The book based on her thesis was published by the Herder Institute in Marburg in 2023, entitled “Menschen in weißen Kitteln. Der staatliche Gesundheitsdienst der Volksrepublik Polen in den 1950er und 60er Jahren“ (“People in White Coats. The State Health Service of the Polish People’s Republic in the 1950s and 1960s”). From 2020 to 2023, Melanie was a member of the Collaborative Research Centre “Law and Literature” in Münster. She primarily focused on then little researched pitaval literature and wrote, among other things, on the relationship of alcohol and crime as represented in these kinds of texts. She specialises in medical, social and cultural history, with a particular focus on Poland in the 19th and 20th centuries.

PhD's

Agata Koprowicz, MA

Research and Teaching Assistant at the Institute of Polish Culture, the University of Warsaw. In her research, she focuses on the visual culture of the Old Polish era and the 19th century, the social history of photography and the history of peasants. Winner of the Scholarship of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for Students and PhD students for outstanding achievements (2015/2016, 2016/2017). Winner of the first prize in the Bronisław Geremek Competition for the Best Master’s Thesis in Anthropology of History (2020). Published in „Widok. Teorie i Praktyki Kultury Wizualnej”, „Wiek XIX. Rocznik Towarzystwa Literackiego im. Adama Mickiewicza”, „Stan Rzeczy”, „Czas Kultury”. She is the Polish National Science Centre Preludium grant holder (title of the project: “Between subordination and emancipation. Cultural history of photography of peasants in the Kingdom of Poland and Galicia (1846–1905)”). She is preparing a doctoral dissertation on the citizenship of Polish peasants and photography in the 19th century, using the perspective of potential history.






Co-Investigators

mgr Yaryna Kocherkewych (Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine in Lviv)
call for applications (2027)
call for applications (2028)



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